The Precious works are a series of temporary, indoor installations built with countless small, tropical hardwood shavings. Selected for their place of origin and their intense and unexpected natural colors, the shavings are formed into various shapes and sizes of mounds, waves, depressions, lines and flat expanses. Hand-formed and held together by gravity and friction, the fragile work is metaphoric and referential. It comments on our paradoxical relationship with the natural world and imparts a sensual and meditative experience of color, form, texture and aroma.